The Tyrant’s First Female Minister and Empress, a Master of Divination

After Xiao Banruo’s mother disappeared, she was seized and taken back to the capital, where she met her biological father, the greatest physiognomist under heaven. Three other young women were brought back with her. Her father felt no affection for them, only a desire to control them. “I’ll give the four of you a choice of men. One of them will become emperor. Whether any of you has the fate to become empress is up to you.” Then he began pitting them against one another, like someone raising venomous insects to fight. Xiao Banruo: Whoever he chooses, fine by me. I’m out of here.